• DocumentCode
    2475913
  • Title

    Rateless code based multimedia multicasting with outage probability constraints

  • Author

    Sheng, Wei ; Chan, Wai-Yip ; Blostein, Steven D.

  • Author_Institution
    Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    12-14 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    134
  • Lastpage
    138
  • Abstract
    An unequal error protection (UEP) transmission scheme is proposed for multimedia multicasting systems employing a priority encoding transmission (PET)-based packetization structure combined with rateless codes. Outage probability is analyzed for the layered multicast framework. A novel transmission scheme is proposed which is capable of minimizing the transmission cost while simultaneously guaranteeing outage probability constraints. Simulation results show that our proposed transmission scheme performs well in a multicasting system with transmission deadlines and asynchronous access start times.
  • Keywords
    codes; multicast communication; multimedia communication; PET-based packetization structure; layered multicast framework; multimedia multicasting systems; outage probability constraint; priority encoding transmission; rateless codes; unequal error protection transmission; Bandwidth; Costs; Decoding; Delay; Error correction codes; Multicast algorithms; Multimedia systems; PSNR; Streaming media; Transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications (QBSC), 2010 25th Biennial Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Kingston, ON
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5709-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BSC.2010.5472984
  • Filename
    5472984